First of all I don't have any updates on the progress of 0.90alpha, unfortunately. But I do at least have some updates on my multi-month absence:

GOOD NEWS first - I finally finished that class for which I took an Incomplete, which had been hanging over me for almost a year. I felt guilt working on coding/design for Fallout Fixt when I knew I should be working on coding/design to finish that class so that I could get my degree.
Well I got an 'A' for the class and am now just waiting on the processing folks to mail me the diploma. Woo!

NEUTRAL/EXPLANATORY NEWS next - The promotion I earned at work late March 2016 is great, it's pretty much the perfect role for me and the company is fantastic. It has, however, had a learning curve and been quite hectic & stressful at times. This is part of my silence and lack of progress; I've been basically doing nothing but work+commute+TV+sleep for a few months.

BAD/SADPANDA NEWS next next - My laptop died the same week that I finished the class I mentioned above. Irony? Not sure. Very frustrating though. It's either the motherboard, graphics card, or some part of the assembly that connects the gfx card to the screen.

GREAT NEWS last - I just purchased a replacement laptop today (I don't want to get a brand new laptop just yet; I'd rather put that money into paying off my credit cards) and it should arrive by September 13th.

I am going to do my best to release 0.90alpha as soon as possible.I don't expect any problems releasing it by the end of the calendar year. I can't be more specific than that as I'm not sure exactly how long the in-game customizations & playstyles will take to finish implementing.

Thank you all for your support and patience; I apologize for the delays.

Thank you for the mods/fixes. I have GOG version for Mac, will I be able to use Fixit (for Fallout 1) without any issues?

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@Bittersteel Fallout Fixt is Windows-only with no plans for Mac support, unfortunately. This is because the extensions it uses such as Sfall/ddraw don't work on Mac systems, and also because I don't use Apple products so I'm not at all familiar with building Mac installers.

So do you have to have a physical copy of the game? Because every time I start fallout fixt it just says "could not find master data file make sure you have game cd in" or something like that.
Also, it is kinda laggy. Mostly with the interface. Is that natural or does it come with things that help it because it used the screen refresh thing.

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@The Lone Poopyface Have you checked the Troubleshooting guide? It's just a text file but has plenty of helpful steps You can find it in my signature.

So the US Independance day 2016.. just a day before the FIXT 0.81a patch 1 year anniversary. Since I've managed to actually reach level 99 on my cheated playthrough (yes i barely made it but i still have plenty of various ammo left), i've decided to share a couple of screenshots of the carnage.

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@gustarballs1983 This is actually quite impressive. Well done! How did it feel to reach 99? Any idea how many hours it took? Also what exactly did you do, was it simply adding lots of Deathclaws to that map? Did you have to change any scripts?

Decided to replay Fallout yesterday, checked to see if there were any new unofficial patches, and found this. Thanks for all the hard work, glad to see my favorite series is still getting the attention it deserves.

On a dreary night, I decided to give another run at the original Fallout and looked for what updates occurred while I was away from my beloved title... pleasantly delighted by the work of this mod. Kudos.

I know He did promise to work on fixt in June but it isn't the first time he was unable to fulfill his oaths/vows. anyways I just really hope it's a work related thing and not some bad thing. Although I agree that He could visit the forum more often.. as people tend to get worried quickly without any fresh news.

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@gustarballs1983 Yeah, I do tend to be rather awful at making my self-imposed deadlines for Fixt releases. Sigh, #regrets.
I did indeed work on Fixt in June but wasn't able to even touch it during July or August.

1. Someone mentioned they got to level 99, I remember Fallout 1 having a hardcap, does Fixt remove this cap or is there a file I need to edit to remove it?
2. Is there is a perk limit? I noticed that if I edit myself a mountain of perks using the f1/2se(vlad) only a handful of them show up and then it shows the traits section.

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@danielje Thanks for your kind words!
1. The level cap is removed (optionally) by the Sfall/ddraw plugin which was originally made by Timeslip and added features for F1 Engine by Crafty.
2. This is a limitation of the engine in Fallout 1. The Perks do exist for your character, the engine just was designed to only display 7 no matter what.

EDIT : nvm, I now think it is a vanilla quest sequence bug, where I took the Gun Runner weapons for myself instead of for the Blades. Though it is a fact there were only two Deathclaws in the warehouse instead of the normal three.

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@Baraz I'm glad you got it figured it! Could you please post this in the Bugs Wiki? Link in my signature.

This is actually quite impressive. Well done! How did it feel to reach 99? Any idea how many hours it took? Also what exactly did you do, was it simply adding lots of Deathclaws to that map? Did you have to change any scripts?

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So much questions..
How did I feel? as it was my first playthrough of Fixt 0.81a with crafty's sfall i was urging to get to know wether Mr.Handy in military base got his conversation panel after he joins Your party or is there at least any way to pass him some more ammo or any way to heal him and "push" him around when cornered by him but sadly not

How many hours it took?
in game i was just before finishing the deathclaw quest and after that assaulting master then necropolis quick trip to v13 end some quests there and military base last. back then it was like 120-130 in game days after power leveling was done so no place for invasions or water chip quest in my fixt settings . In real life a bit longer because i made a lot of long breaks, actually i started the playthrough back in December 2015 but i had no motivation to push further because no new Fixt version was on the horizon, to do more tests :p. If i'd remove the long breaks it would be around 7-12 full days of gaming (assuming one play'd at least 10-12 hours a day)...

How exactly did You did it..

Since i have almost no idea how to mod... besides maybe my hacked companion npc proto files wich i use at all of my playthroughs since i just can't stand them wasteing ammo at the cost of my character's backpain,
"...I had to do the powerleveling the hard way.."
That is Starting the quest from gunrunners to kill the deathclaws and kill only the ones on the surface.. go to blades map & rest 1 hour at the pipboy enter warehouse kill the respawned deathclaws on the surface but not the mother nor eggs (underground) rinse & repeat. bodies are gone since they vanish after 1hr sleep but the bloodstains do not. Hence the red floor on the warehouse map. As sometimes they wander to a different spot before i gun'em down (but most of the time they were gunned down on an area wich already was stained) number of deathclaw kills should be somwhere on the screenshot and it neared 5000 kills if i remembered right. the only thing I hacked in terms of equipment was multiplying hardned power armor and turbo plasma rifles for my party npcs, because as of now there is only possible to get 1 Hardned PA and 2x Turboplasma legally in the game without vad's editor. however i did not duplicate any ammo. but chewed through the most of it.. i was left with like 800 shotgun shells and +/- 1200 micro fusion cells.. evrything else i got in game (except maybe rocket launcher and flamethrower ammo) was used up on deathclawas.

So there You have it no mods but plain old hardcore carnage.

Best Regards
Gus T.
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oh yeah i do hope You'll fix that mr.Handy to function like a proper companion and not like a following cornerblocker.

Good to know, I'll keep my fingers crossed for FIXT development from now on..

on a side note..just do remember that you can always unmount the hdd from your old broken laptop and purchase 2,5"external usb drive enclosure, fit the drive inside to have an easy acces to your old data. If it's 2,5" and usb 3.0 You won't even require external power adapter, as usb juice is enaugh to power the 2,5" drive by itself. The electronics inside the adapter deals with the voltage conversion if needed. It's only a matter of enaugh amperage as some but not all usb 2.0 ports (especially on older motherboards) might burn out the mobo because of overload, as 2,5" external drives usually require more than the "standard usb 2.0 maximum of 500mA".

Sorry if this have been answered but i can't find it anywhere.. i have win 10, i installed fallout 1 classic from GOG, and installed the FIXT full edition. And set my res to my laptop native 1366x768. and everything is so small, the text the characters. I cant find a solution anywhere.. and the ones i found do not help at all. Does anyone have a solution for this?

Sorry if this have been answered but i can't find it anywhere.. i have win 10, i installed fallout 1 classic from GOG, and installed the FIXT full edition. And set my res to my laptop native 1366x768. and everything is so small, the text the characters. I cant find a solution anywhere.. and the ones i found do not help at all. Does anyone have a solution for this?

Have you tried changing the configuration in f1_res_Config.exe? Or changing the settings in ddraw.ini and f1_res.ini? Check the Troubleshooting Guide, maybe there is a solution for you. A reinstall may fix it too. If not you'll just have to wait for someone more informed. Or just play it on a lower resolution.

I know you can modify the ddraw.ini to change the speed of the game, resulting in more fluid animations. Is there any setting anywhere in the game that changes the time scale? It currently seems 1:1, with 1 minute real world time equaling 1 minute in-game time when not traveling or waiting. Is it possible to quicken this to one second equals one minute, or whatever the user may apply? The dynamic of the days was one of the few things that bothered me about the game - I hate how I can roll into Junktown, take out Morbid, save Killian, take out Gizmo, recruit Tycho, bust the Skulz.... all in the space of half an hour in-game. Video Game exposition is more concise and less nuanced than any real world negotiation/action, and I feel the time should reflect this succinctness. Well, sorry for ranting.

Tl;dr is there any way to modify the time scale?

And one more thing - is there any way to increase NPCs aiming for limbs, potentially breaking them? I feel crippling is underutilized in the base game, having gone through playthroughs without being crippled once, or at maximum maybe twice in 40+ hours. Making crippling more prevalent can give the Doctor skill a much needed boost in popularity. I see this in the ddraw:

but does this effect where critters aim, or is this only defined to the player?

EDIT: Oh, and one last thing:

This is a limitation of the engine in Fallout 1. The Perks do exist for your character, the engine just was designed to only display 7 no matter what.

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Will the implementation of the F2 engine also bring its Perk scroll menu? I use an editor to apply more perks when I level (I find the uses of some perks to be marginal by themselves, so I apply "packages" of similar perks that could ostensibly be rolled into one, such as Explorer, Scout, and Ranger for example, so I get a significant boost to World Map exploration... otherwise a single 3 levels combat perk easily trumps RP "flavor" perks that take three times as long to the point I feel the latter would be "worth it" versus the former). Thing is, by level 9 (sometimes) I can no longer see them - I assumed they were not applied. Not to mention a removed level cap would offer more perks than shown. Good to know that they are, but the scroll menu would be useful in reviewing my character to keep my role-playing on point.

Thanks again for everything Sduibek, been a fan of your work for two years now. Your efforts are much appreciated.

EDIT 3: Sigh, I guess this is no longer a quick question, lol. Another thing, the very first question that actually made me find this site and this mod: is vendor refreshment going to be a thing? I know it's possible to continue the game indefinetly ammo-wise (as Gustarballs has demonstrated) but it would be nice to have Barter/Charisma's usefulness go past rading out all the ammo they offer a single time and then they are useless for the rest of the game. A steady supply of ammo and stimpaks would be an excellent addition - is that possible, perhaps with the updated engine where the vendors do that?

The timescale is not a thing and i hope it never will be as there aare few timed quests (like skullz will assasinate Neal/Neil within 2 days and after certain time compression you wouldn't manage to run up to lars to report and attack them in time. time is as good as is to speed up time you've got pipboy clock.

secondly as for called shots and non party NPC skill increase just increase the "Combat Difficulty" in the game's options this also increases a chance for the non party npc's to critically shot.
the thing from ddraw.ini you pointed out about body parts is not how often any npc will make a called shot but rather how high accuary penalty (actually a skill penalty) is applied when aiming at that body part. I assumed it's game wide and not just the player. So for example if setting the "Combat Difficulty" to High/Rough and all =0 in that dddraw.ini section you would ensure not only in more called shots but those called shots would also have better chance to actually hit you (same chance as non targeted shots to the torso) but the other side of the coin would be that Player would also have same chance for targeted shots as for non targeted.

Thirdly Yes after the engine conversion takes place perks will/should have more slots (with ddraw.dll it's increased up to the number of all perks in fallout 2, be it chosen at level up and those extra granted in game).

Lastly I'm not sure wether Sduibek will actually implement shop restocking hovever He himself did propose this point at the bug wiki "new ideas" section.

shops restocking wich seemes stupid concerning it's the wasteland so no sopermarkets and no factories around therfore from where would they restock hmm? well I personally think maybe ammo (because of gunrunners actually making it) and low tier weapons (brotherhood scavenges but it's low tier so it trades it for food and water to traders from Hub) but no restocking on anything higher than metal armor /14mm pistol. but absolutely no meds restocking since nobody makes them (well maybe except stimpacks if broc flower, xander root
and empty hypo get introducet into Fo1)

one thing i would like to see is Economy and Combat (EcCo) rebalance for Fo1 as turboplasma is seriously overpowered in this game i mean clearing a room full of super mutants all by yourself in one round is pretty hilarious. and additionally I would like to see Your party NPCs to be of a serious use At end game, because as of now they can only tickle the supermutants (even when heavily modified to use turboplasma) And my char 1 shots with turboplasma almost evrything in the game ( maybe besides deathclaws and the master. (they require more shots but are still killed within 1 round).

So combat rebalance should take place there's no doubt about it. the YAAM should be a thing to for Fo1.

The timescale is not a thing and i hope it never will be as there aare few timed quests (like skullz will assasinate Neal/Neil within 2 days and after certain time compression you wouldn't manage to run up to lars to report and attack them in time. time is as good as is to speed up time you've got pipboy clock.

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I suppose,

secondly as for called shots and non party NPC skill increase just increase the "Combat Difficulty" in the game's options this also increases a chance for the non party npc's to critically shot.
the thing from ddraw.ini you pointed out about body parts is not how often any npc will make a called shot but rather how high accuary penalty (actually a skill penalty) is applied when aiming at that body part. I assumed it's game wide and not just the player. So for example if setting the "Combat Difficulty" to High/Rough and all =0 in that dddraw.ini section you would ensure not only in more called shots but those called shots would also have better chance to actually hit you (same chance as non targeted shots to the torso) but the other side of the coin would be that Player would also have same chance for targeted shots as for non targeted.

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I always play on rough combat + hard difficulty and I still find crippling happens too rarely, but thanks for the feedback, I'll try it.

Thirdly Yes after the engine conversion takes place perks will/should have more slots (with ddraw.dll it's increased up to the number of all perks in fallout 2, be it chosen at level up and those extra granted in game).

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Yay.

shops restocking wich seemes stupid concerning it's the wasteland so no sopermarkets and no factories around therfore from where would they restock hmm?

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Scavengers constantly trading and selling wares over time. I find it hard to believe that even in a scarce wasteland that a shot would have the same inventory with no new items after, say, a year in game time.

but absolutely no meds restocking since nobody makes them

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Good point, but scavengers may still find more out in the wasteland and sell to shops - the 50~100 that exist in shops can't be the only stimpaks that still exist in all of California. Maybe prices could increase as the shops restock to represent them becoming scarcer. That would properly scale to level and income, now that I think of it.

rebalance for Fo1 as turboplasma is seriously overpowered in this game i mean clearing a room full of super mutants all by yourself in one round is pretty hilarious.

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My current playthrough is my first Energy Weapons focused character, I can't wait to give this a shot

First of all I don't have any updates on the progress of 0.90alpha, unfortunately. But I do at least have some updates on my multi-month absence:

GOOD NEWS first - I finally finished that class for which I took an Incomplete, which had been hanging over me for almost a year. I felt guilt working on coding/design for Fallout Fixt when I knew I should be working on coding/design to finish that class so that I could get my degree.
Well I got an 'A' for the class and am now just waiting on the processing folks to mail me the diploma. Woo!

NEUTRAL/EXPLANATORY NEWS next - The promotion I earned at work late March 2016 is great, it's pretty much the perfect role for me and the company is fantastic. It has, however, had a learning curve and been quite hectic & stressful at times. This is part of my silence and lack of progress; I've been basically doing nothing but work+commute+TV+sleep for a few months.

BAD/SADPANDA NEWS next next - My laptop died the same week that I finished the class I mentioned above. Irony? Not sure. Very frustrating though. It's either the motherboard, graphics card, or some part of the assembly that connects the gfx card to the screen.

GREAT NEWS last - I just purchased a replacement laptop today (I don't want to get a brand new laptop just yet; I'd rather put that money into paying off my credit cards) and it should arrive by September 13th.

I am going to do my best to release 0.90alpha as soon as possible.I don't expect any problems releasing it by the end of the calendar year. I can't be more specific than that as I'm not sure exactly how long the in-game customizations & playstyles will take to finish implementing.

Thank you all for your support and patience; I apologize for the delays.

@Bittersteel Fallout Fixt is Windows-only with no plans for Mac support, unfortunately. This is because the extensions it uses such as Sfall/ddraw don't work on Mac systems, and also because I don't use Apple products so I'm not at all familiar with building Mac installers.

@The Lone Poopyface Have you checked the Troubleshooting guide? It's just a text file but has plenty of helpful steps You can find it in my signature.

@gustarballs1983 This is actually quite impressive. Well done! How did it feel to reach 99? Any idea how many hours it took? Also what exactly did you do, was it simply adding lots of Deathclaws to that map? Did you have to change any scripts?

@gustarballs1983 Yeah, I do tend to be rather awful at making my self-imposed deadlines for Fixt releases. Sigh, #regrets.
I did indeed work on Fixt in June but wasn't able to even touch it during July or August.

@danielje Thanks for your kind words!
1. The level cap is removed (optionally) by the Sfall/ddraw plugin which was originally made by Timeslip and added features for F1 Engine by Crafty.
2. This is a limitation of the engine in Fallout 1. The Perks do exist for your character, the engine just was designed to only display 7 no matter what.

@X-01-Guardian Did you ever figure out the resolution to this? If not, please post it in the Bugs Wiki - link in my signature. Thanks! And apologies for the bug/issue

@Baraz I'm glad you got it figured it! Could you please post this in the Bugs Wiki? Link in my signature.

@Worxolas Correct, and this is actually already fixed in the files on my computer, just not in the version currently available (0.81alpha). So it'll be working just fine in 0.90alpha.

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The Let's play leads to nothing on YouTube. It appears the video had been deleted?

so one of these "fixes" is the player doesn't start with a knife in inventory? i always used used the extra knife for money or trade. do you get another item instead?is what the starting items in reference to tagged skills means? is this what is meant by balance adjustments? also why no level past 21? i ask because i like some of the imbalances that made things easier but, what the hell do i know maybe this fix/mod makes worth while trade offs?

EDIT: do the new larger death animations stick out like a sore thumb like every other mod with added graphics, ie aliasing or smooth or too high resolution etc etc? also can the ddraw speed settings be changed back to 100%?

Also the rationale behind the 20 fps for animation for power Armour could be considered flawed. IF you ever operated heavy equipment from young age there is a difference between torq and speed. this is why bulldozers are slow but, can plow a whole house down. It's big and heavy and has TORQ or UMPH which does not equate to speed. kind of like torq vs horsepower. A better example would be a sledge hammer, it's slow swinging but,m when it hits it packs some power, aka momentum/kinetic energy. This is probably what the original creators were thinking if they chose to make PA slow but, i might it could have possibly been for performance/hardware reasons of the time.

so one of these "fixes" is the player doesn't start with a knife in inventory? i always used used the extra knife for money or trade. do you get another item instead?is what the starting items in reference to tagged skills means? is this what is meant by balance adjustments? also why no level past 21? i ask because i like some of the imbalances that made things easier but, what the hell do i know maybe this fix/mod makes worth while trade offs?

EDIT: do the new larger death animations stick out like a sore thumb like every other mod with added graphics, ie aliasing or smooth or too high resolution etc etc? also can the ddraw speed settings be changed back to 100%?

Also the rationale behind the 20 fps for animation for power Armour could be considered flawed. IF you ever operated heavy equipment from young age there is a difference between torq and speed. this is why bulldozers are slow but, can plow a whole house down. It's big and heavy and has TORQ or UMPH which does not equate to speed. kind of like torq vs horsepower. A better example would be a sledge hammer, it's slow swinging but,m when it hits it packs some power, aka momentum/kinetic energy. This is probably what the original creators were thinking if they chose to make PA slow but, i might it could have possibly been for performance/hardware reasons of the time.

also so far this fix/mod is looking pretty interesting

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@cdoublejj Leveling past 21 is disabled by default because there's really not much need for it in Fallout 1. And the Perk display gets messed up if you have more than 7 listed because it's not scrollable in this engine. Either way, the Level 21 cap removal is easy to enable by modifying ddraw.ini.

Game speeds can be changed to whatever you want with ddraw.ini Larger death animations for the Super Mutants are a bit pixelated because it's the original blown up by about 20%, but it still is better than the originals; in the original game the burnt deaths for Super Mutants were the size of a human wearing Power Armor. So if/when you fried them, they'd shrink upon death. lol. It looked very strange.

Good points about Power Armor. Originally I changed it because slow running (esp slower than everything else in the game) drives me crazy, but I also did so because it does say it's got servo-motors and whatnot. At this point I think the consistent experience is worth the potential realism tradeoff. It always bothered me that endgame armor made running slower the rest of the game.